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Announcements
Welcome to RiskbOWl – the first closed community of Risk professionals to share ideas, best practices and get a sense of peer practice, with the ability to anonymously ask questions, share perspectives, run targeted polls, and discuss recent regulatory developments. Find out the latest developments in the RiskbOWl community, including user guidelines, community rules, and latest functionality
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Our Insights
Discover our latest thinking across hot topics in risk management, drawn from serving the world's leading financial institutions and deep, industry-renowned expertise across risk and finance topics, including surveys, primers and points-of-view
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General Discussion
Use this space for questions or broader topics pertaining to risk management, from the latest industry trends and regulatory developments, to the latest news and risk headlines potentially impacting the sector
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Geopolitical Risk
With the global economy entering what can only be described as a critical inflection point, particularly in terms of trade, institutions are mobilising to better understand how the recent upending of trading relations will impact either lending portfolios or operations in the short term, and impacts of the shifting geopolitical landscape in the longer term. Join the discussion and compare notes on how your peers are managing these novel risks
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Credit Risk
The dedicated space to converse with peers and our experts on all aspects of credit risk, from the technicalities of modelling using internal approaches, credit decisioning and underwriting, credit risk appetite, governance and monitoring, provisioning, and regulatory requirements
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Treasury and Liquidity Risk
Recent years has seen the Treasury shoot up the agenda given the length of time the sector had operated in much more benign interest rate conditions. Sector turmoil in 2023 prompted supervisors and banks alike to ensure their ALM, liquidity, and interest rate risk capabilities were adequate for new rate realities. Discover the latest in our dedicated Treasury channel
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Operational Resilience
The channel for all areas pertaining to the ability of institutions to deliver critical operations through disruption, comprising of prudential risk frameworks, internal governance, outsourcing, business continuity and crisis response. Recent years has seen much more scrutiny on the reliance of institutions on technology and third parties, with the former very much on the supervisory agenda, perhaps most explicitly embodied with the advent of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in Europe
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Regulatory Compliance
With an increasingly complex and interlinked risk landscape, comes an equally complex, corresponding regulatory framework, and it's no surprise how high up regulatory compliance now features on the bank agenda. Check in with your peers on the issues driving this key risk management capability, including compliance operating model, regulatory horizon scanning, and financial crime compliance
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Climate and ESG Risk
Channel dedicated to discussion on the supervisory and societal expectations driving banks to meet their sustainability goals, by embedding ESG criteria into enterprise risk management frameworks to address climate-related and social risks, as well as financial institution's climate risk stress testing capabilities, and disclosure requirements
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Stress Testing
From supervisory exercises, to internal scenario-planning, crisis simulation and war gaming, stress testing has become an established, post-GFC, risk management tool that institutions are expected to have in place in order to demonstrate the sustainability of their business model and ensure ongoing confidence in the bank. Discover the latest on stress testing in our dedicated channel
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Model Risk Management
Whilst dedicated risk management for the development, monitoring and validation of risk models has been long established, the advances in technology, analytics and data driving the banking industry has promoted such model risk frameworks to be updated and enhanced accordingly. Discover the latest impacting your peers across the model lifecycle - model definition, model vs non-model scope, validation, monitoring, periodic review, model risk reporting and governance
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Risk Culture
Organisational culture has long been recognized as a key component of risk-taking and risk-adverse behaviours, making it an important dimension underpinning the overall effectiveness of risk management more broadly within an organisation. Use this dedicated space for more discussion on methodologies, values, and behaviours within an organization that shape its approach to risk management and overall awareness and understanding of risk
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Risk Data and Analytics
With as much change in the risk landscape and operating environment, discover insights and discussion on how developments in data and analytics are impacting risk functions, including deployment of AI, regulatory pressures such as BCBS239
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